Thanks for stopping by! This group is designed for anything and everything, Salesforce.com. If you are currently using Salesforce and looking to sharpen your skills, or if you are looking to possibly implement a CRM system and want to learn more about Salesforce. Please stop in. We will be hosting several events focusing a few key areas, separately: General Salesforce knowledge and best practices Salesforce Experts & Administrators sharing Best Practices Increasing user adoption within S …

Beyond The Startup World This is a group for Community & Developer Relations Managers/Advocates/Specialists who have fast growing, diverse, and ever-changing communities that need keeping up with! Join us to learn best practices, share advice, meet cool people, and hear real-world experiences (rather than technical jargon) in a fun and relaxed environment. This group is not exclusive and welcomes anyone willing to share what they know and ready to learn.

This group is forum to gather and share experiences around Cloud Computing, especially Amazon Web Services. If you have used EC2, S3, Amazon Payments, Mechanical Turk or are interested in learning more about how others have, come join our group. Cloud Computing is changing rapidly so if you are involved in the cloud or interested in learning about how Enterprise companies are leveraging the cloud, stop on by.

Druid is a distributed, column-oriented, real-time, interactive analytical datastore. It was created to allow consistently fast, multidimensional ad-hoc drill-down type querying for large quantities of data - in real time. If you're searching for a solution beyond what proprietary column oriented, or in memory data stores offer both in price and capability - then join us. The Bay Area Druid User Group is dedicated to bringing together users and developers of Druid to exchange knowledge, insight …

Paint it green! This group is for users of openSUSE and Suse Linux to meet. We will focus on use cases, installs and cool demos, as well as launch parties.

If you use Salesforce every day and want to get more out of it, this meetup is for you. Whether you are a Salesforce newbie, a seasoned administrator, a consultant, a sales manager, or a developer, this meetup gets everyone together to discuss how to be more successful with Salesforce.com. Topics will include: User adoption strategies, integrations with legacy systems vs newer APIs, alternatives to Visualforce and Apex, hacking visualforce and apex, expanding Salesforce.com functionality (easy/m …

There is a huge Cloud meetup group in the valley, but there isn't one here in the city! Let's see if we can get a great group together in San Francisco to discuss Cloud and Cloud technology. Please join if you are interested in Cloud!

Developer Force is Salesforce.com's free developer program for the Force.com Platform. The Developer Force website, http://developer.force.com, is a free community-based online portal for developers, where developers can learn, access key resources, and discuss a diverse set of topics anchored around the Force.com platform. As of December 2012, this group transitioned to a more community-driven, developer user group that will meet once per month in San Francisco. Developers are encouraged to sug …

Salesforce.com Integration & Analytics is a San Francisco meetup for Salesforce.com users, administrators, Force.com developers, sales and marketing professionals, and others interested in extending the Salesforce platform. Topics will include: data integration dashboards analytics reporting sales force automation (SFA) marketing optimization using 3rd party data integrated into Salesforce business intelligence (BI) and more This meetup is not an official Salesforce.com event, but we are all …

Client/Server Cloud hosts events for developers building applications in the cloud. Our goal is to have the highest quality speakers on the latest technologies such as Node.JS, NoSQL, Python, Platform as a Service etc. We will organize both formal, structured presentation-centric events along with informal gatherings to just chat.

Open to Bay Area folks interested in Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, Data Migration, EAI, ETL, dataflow architecture, and related topics

Cloud Mafia is a San Francisco based community group.  Our mission is to bring together everyone that is interested in and working in the cloud technologies. Learn, network, present and meet others in the cloud space.  We have lots of events and tech talks.  Cloud Mafia has 2300+ members, has been featured on Venture Beat and sponsored by companies like Loggly, Salesforce, dotCloud, Boundary, Mulesoft, DataWeek2.0, Swrve, Stormpath, Totango, 10Gen, AppDirect, Pager Duty, Cloudability, Gigaspaces …

THIS IS ONLY A TEST USER GROUP - WE ARE EVALUATING NEW PLATFORMS FOR THE USER GROUP PROGRAM INCLUDING MEETUP.  THIS GROUP WAS SETUP IN ORDER TO DO A FULL FEATURE ANALYSIS OF MEETUP.

DaVinci Institute is proud to launch DaVinci Coders in both Denver and San Francisco. The purpose of DaVinci Coders is to reboot your life and sharpen your professional skills. These classes are all about creating return on investment. Whether you are self-employed or looking to bolster your resume, DaVinci Coders will provide you with the necessary skills to compete in the marketplace. DaVinci Coders instructors provide not only technical knowledge, but practical real-world solutions. Instructo …

These are not your typical software engineering events.  BASE is focused on emerging technologies and creating events around topics that have never been attempted.  Events may be around such topics as Big Data, Machine Learning, Robotics, Nanotechnology, 3D Printing, Synthetic Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer History, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality (AR), and using software to create art. BASE creates events only possible in San Francisco and the Bay area with experts from all walks …

Cloud Slam and UP is developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in cloud computing, looking at core process and strategies in the rapidly shifting world. We create thought provoking conference panels, workshops, and tutorials which are selected to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud.

Today is the age of Scalable Systems and Big Data. Providing a meetup where we can discuss innovation, solutions and have pub nights for drinking and socializing.

This is a group of users of the Joyent Cloud or people who are interested in leveraging the Joyent Cloud for their cloud computing needs. Anyone interested in cloud computing can join. Joyent Cloud customers will find the group particularly useful. We'll be planning events and meetups around topical themes.

Amazon AWS, VMware vCloud, Google, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace... Cloud computing is changing the way we work and reshaping the way we manage and run companies. From startups to enterprises, it is disrupting the IT landscape. Come join us at the Cloud Club to discuss this coming revolution, and network among experts in the field! Want to tweet about us? Use: #SFCloudClub

We're interested in open source, open data, and data governance as it applies to cloud computing.

"This group is for all IT's, engineers, and software developers, that want to know about how your environment can have the best connectivity, power, redundancy, and security in a Tier 3/raised floor data center in SF, instead of a hot room onsite that can be a potential hazard for your business because of cooling or connectivity issues.This group will be useful for many data and cloud environment needs for start-ups, mid sized, and enterprise local business" The group plans on meeting twice a mo …

This meetup is focused on hands-on coding for Cloud platforms. The goal is ultimately for members to share best practices and innovate. This meetup is about sharing code and building applications that run in the cloud. Although I work for Microsoft as a developer evangelist, I welcome all developers from all cloud platforms. Initially, the meetings will be focused on the Windows Azure Platform (Azure). Azure is new and initial meetings will be designed to get developers up and running and workin …

This Group will bring software people together to share ideas and experience in the domain of Continuous Delivery. Continuous Delivery addresses the entire software delivery pipeline - from CI to testing to deployment to release - and addresses technology, process and organization. Anything within that domain will be in scope for our Group. The Group shares concerns with other Groups in the Bay area - DevOps, Agile,Puppet/Chef, Cloud, Selenium, etc. - and will be complementary to them. But we'll …

The San Francisco chapter of GTUG aims to provide technical training on emerging google technologies, as well as to provide a environment that facilitates networking. GTUG SF will be hosted once a month in San Francisco #GTUGSF - Google Technology User Group  - San Francisco

This group is for anyone interested in log management and data analysis. Developers, devops, IT, marketing, sales, anyone that deals with logs can benefit from this group as well as professionals that would use log data for analysis of business processes.   We will have lightning talks and guest speakers, including customers with real-world stories, industry luminaries and more. At heart, this is an informal, social gathering of like-minded enthusiasts that think logs are cool. Who Should Join t …

Anything social sales: from new business models like free trial, freemium, in-app purchases to use of social media for lead generation and sales to social products of the future. Meetup for sales stars, other customer facing personnel and growth hackers to compare notes on what works and what doesn't.

This meetup welcomes conversation on the cutting edge of APIs, from cloud to business models. We encourage all developers, providers and consumers of APIs to gather and discuss innovations, opportunities and tactical or strategic problems faced. We've seen a lot of conversation and change going on in the API space, driven by cloud computing, SaaS, open source and other disruptions, and would like to get the community together to see how we can work together and come up with ideas on how to make …

We are developers helping other developers learn about full-text search. For our first meetup, we will be talking with IndexTank, a hosted solution currently used by many developers as well as large companies such as Reddit.com We will discuss how to quickly get search implemented using IndexTank's services, as well as discuss other search alternatives.